however, the one thing that had become apparent is that in a mix it did not come thru well enough. i don't want to use the word cut, but i guess thats the best word i can think of. It's more like the old blanket over the speaker thing.....just wasn't clear and up front in a mix. After trying many ways to add bightness in an attempt to remedy that it hit me that since this killer tone goes away when i change a single thing in the preamp up to the point B4 the TS that the deletion of the CF was probably NOT why i had this great tone and that it may be responsible for the lack of cut.
So as you have probably guessed, i added the CF stage back in and that did the trick ! so after touting how great the amp sounds with a plate fed TS, and after even asking why it is so many amps use a CF when mine benefited so much by removing it, i must now look you all straight in the eyes and say "DOH!!!!".
It was NOT the deletion of the CF, it was the tweaks i did to the gain stages which did it, but in a way removing the CF was responsible for me finding that circuit balance because had i not done this i wouldn't have used some of the tweaks that worked so well because each on thier own i never liked B4. But with the plate fed stack they seemed to work better and that led me to a great gain stage setup. It's just amazing how many times i have discovered tweaks i thought were great only to later realize i'm full of......